Dark Events (LW2)

Dark Events in Long War 2 come in two forms: tactical research upgrades and strategic operations. The former represent ADVENT building up the strength of its forces over time, and are permanent once applied; the latter represents the Aliens conducting operations of its own to cripple XCOM at the strategic layer, and last for a designated time frame.

Much like vanilla Dark Events, certain designated missions can be conducted to interrupt and prevent the Dark Event from occurring - but unlike vanilla, you will not be given the opportunity to do so if you do not have contact with the region the Dark Event spawns in. Since the only way to identify them is to increase your resistance network as wide as possible, it is inevitable that some Dark Events will trigger outside of your coverage regardless of how diligent of a commander you are.

Tactical Research Upgrades

Over time, the ADVENT and Alien ground forces will gain increases in combat effectiveness, as denoted by additional perks and equipment. Each upgrade applies to a limited set of enemy types, and only a certain random percentage of enemies will actually have the upgrade.

These Dark Events are permanent once triggered; this system serves as the Long War 2 equivalent of Long War 1's Alien Research, where aliens gain boosts to stats and bonus perks over time. In this case, however, the bonuses are random and tied to interruptable Dark Events, so you have a chance of encountering powerful upgrades early on or of stopping upgrades from occurring.

Tactical Dark Events
Dark Event	Units Affected	Chance
Viper Rounds		25%
	Mutons ADVENT Captains (Mk3)	25%
	Sectoids Vipers Najas Sidewinders	15%
	All ADVENT Forces and Aliens	16%
	All Aliens	8%
	ADVENT Stun Lancers ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	100%
	ADVENT Captains ADVENT Grenadiers ADVENT Shieldbearers (Mk2, Mk3) Mutons (Mk2, Mk3) ADVENT Rocketeers (Mk2, Mk3) ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	15%
	ADVENT Gunners Mutons (Mk3) ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	15%
	Vipers Najas Sidewinders ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	50%
	ADVENT Stun Lancers ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	20%
	Archons	100%
	ADVENT Gunners ADVENT Captains (Mk3) ADVENT Sentries (Mk3) ADVENT Troopers (Mk3) Mutons (Mk3) ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	33%
	ADVENT Stun Lancers Faceless	100%
	ADVENT Sentries	100%
	All Robotic Enemies	100%
	ADVENT Captains ADVENT Psi Witches (Mk3)	50%
	Mutons Archons ADVENT Stun Lancers (Mk3)	20%
	Cyberus	100%
	Cyberus	100%
	Cyberus ADVENT Turrets Gatekeepers Sectopods ADVENT MECs	20%
	Cyberus Vipers Najas Sidewinders Archons	33%
Template:Greater Faceless (LW2)	Faceless	75%

Strategic Operations

ADVENT will attempt to place severe limitations on XCOM operations at the strategic level, in much the same way that many Dark Events functioned in vanilla. Fortunately, while they are crippling, they are of limited duration.

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